The agency's food safety arm proposed new testing mandates, among other things.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed a new rule that aims to protect consumers from foodborne illnesses by significantly reducingAfter three years of reevaluating its strategy for controlling salmonella rates in poultry, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Servicea new proposal on Monday that would require poultry companies to keep salmonella levels under a certain threshold and ensure they test for six specific forms of bacteria in raw chicken and turkey products.
FSIS also proposed revisions to regulations that would require all poultry slaughter establishments to "develop a microbial monitoring program to prevent pathogen contamination throughout the slaughter system." The FSIS estimates there are 125,000 chicken-associated and nearly 43,000 turkey-associated foodborne salmonella illnesses per year. Despite agency data that indicates salmonella contamination in poultry products has been decreasing, the agency said there has not been an observed reduction in salmonella illnesses.More than 160 sick from recalled cucumbers linked to salmonella outbreak
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